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Knut Hamsun

"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."

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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

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"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

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"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."

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"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

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"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

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"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

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"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."

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Knut Hamsun
"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation."

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"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave."

Poetry

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Knut Hamsun
"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."

Poetry

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"However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science."

Science

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Knut Hamsun
"When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate."

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"There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it."

Being

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Knut Hamsun
"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work."

Work

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"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"

Life

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"In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you."

Man

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"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content."

Art

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